Effects of the Age, Sex, and Maternal Education of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children on Oral Narrative Production

Autor/inn/en	Mendoza, Manuel; Beltran-Navarro, Beatriz; Matute, Esmeralda; Rosselli, Monica
Titel	Effects of the Age, Sex, and Maternal Education of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children on Oral Narrative Production
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64 (2021) 2, S.579-592 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Beltran-Navarro, Beatriz) ORCID (Matute, Esmeralda) ORCID (Rosselli, Monica)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Gender Differences; Parent Background; Mothers; Educational Attainment; Spanish Speaking; Monolingualism; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Oral Language; Preschool Education; Employment Level; Language Skills; Socioeconomic Status; Vocabulary; Interpersonal Communication; Form Classes (Languages); Morphemes; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternhaus; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Beschäftigungsgrad; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Wortschatz; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Analytischer Sprachbau; Morphem; Mexiko
Abstract	Purpose: The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to determine the effects of age, sex, and maternal education of monolingual Spanish-speaking preschoolers on both macrostructural (oral narrative quality) and microstructural measures (number of different words, communication units, mean length of utterance in both words and morphemes, and number of conjunctions) of their oral narrative production. Method: A total of 277 monolingual Spanish-speaking Mexican children aged 2;06-5;11 (years;months) and divided into four age groups (ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 years) were asked to retell a fictional story from the oral narrative ability task of the "Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil-Preescolar." Results: Appropriate internal consistency and interrater reliability were demonstrated. Pearson correlations between macro- and microstructural measures showed a positive association. A multivariate analysis of variance revealed a main effect for age, but not for sex, maternal education, or between-variables interactions. Partial eta-squared showed that age had a medium effect size on oral narrative quality and the number of different words and conjunctions, with a small effect size on communication units and mean length of utterance in words and morphemes. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that age explained the largest percentage of variance across the oral narrative measures. Conclusions: The measures found to be most sensitive to the effect of age (number of different words, oral narrative quality, communication units, conjunctions) are also those most easily assessed by clinicians with limited training in linguistics. Results obtained for the number of different words and communication units were similar to those reported previously for English-speaking children. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01